The new year started with a promise of love and ended with a 9mm handgun in a U-Store-It parking lot.David Russell Miller claimed to be a tax lawyer when he met his future wife, Jayne, on a Jan. 1 flight from Orlando to Los Angeles. They were married two days after Valentine's Day.To Jayne Miller, her husband seemed to be rich and generous, a prince of a man who took her family to Europe for a summer holiday. He said he was working for the government of Kuwait.But within months the fairy tale had unraveled, and Jayne Miller went to police and an Orlando private detective with stories of bigamy, fraud and fear for her life.

Parts of an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were mistakenly shipped from MacDill Air Force Base to a private individual, NOAA said. The surprised recipient said in a lengthy posting Monday on the social media site reddit.com that he is a college student and was awaiting delivery of some weightlifting equipment from UPS. His posting included photos of the NOAA parts as well as a card with NOAA's address and phone number at MacDill.

The twisted fabric of David Miller's life unraveled the afternoon of Sept. 15.Jayne Miller, 33, was killed that Sunday at a Sanford miniwarehouse. Family members and a private investigator said the woman discovered her husband had another wife in Pennsylvania and had lied about his past. They said she was preparing to expose him publicly when she was killed.Miller, 41, who faces trial next month in the shooting death of Jayne Miller, had spent that afternoon sitting by neighbor Rick Saltman's backyard pool, relating his troubles.

A cast member at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park was hospitalized after an apparent a hit-and-run incident on Monday afternoon, officials said. Sgt. Kim Montes, a spokeswoman for the Florida Highway Patrol, said troopers are looking for the driver who hit 48-year-old David Allen Miller in front of the water park about 1:15 p.m. and then drove off. The suspect was believed to have been driving a gray 2007 Jeep, Montes said. Troopers were able to get part of the sport utility vehicle's tag number and a description.

Jayne Miller answered the phone. Her husband's other wife had finally called.''We both introduced ourselves to each other as David's wife,'' Dorothy Miller testified Friday.The two women swapped stories and then made plans to file bigamy charges. But four days later, Jayne Miller was dead.David Miller, the women's husband, is accused of shooting and killing Jayne Miller. He faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder.Prosecutors say David Miller, 42, killed Jayne Miller, 33, because she planned to expose him as a bigamist and a fraud.

David Miller, a bigamist convicted of killing one of his wives when she threatened to go to authorities, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday without possibility of parole for 25 years.Circuit Judge Newman Brock also sentenced Miller to 15 years' probation for shooting into an occupied vehicle. The probation is set to begin after the prison term is completed.In December, a jury found Miller, 42, guilty of shooting his wife, Jayne Miller, 33.Miller claimed he was temporarily insane when he repeatedly shot his wife in the parking lot of a Sanford storage garage in September 1991.

The cabbie screamed at the gunman to stop shooting and raced toward him.But the gunman took aim and fired his semiautomatic pistol several more times. By the time the cabbie could wrestle away the weapon, Jayne Miller was dead.Her husband, David Miller, 42, is charged with first-degree murder and faces life in prison if convicted.The cabbie, Eugene Lane, and two other eyewitnesses appeared before a jury Wednesday to identify David Miller as the gunman. Lane, a general manager for a cab company at the time of the killing, said the shooting occurred during a fight.

Miller said his mind snapped when he shot his wife, but jurors believed he pulled the trigger to keep her from exposing his bigamy and fraud.The jury didn't believe David Miller's mind just ''snapped'' when he killed one of his two wives.They believed he wanted to get her out of the way.They found Miller, 42, guilty of first-degree murder, shooting into a car and battery after deliberating about three hours Thursday.''My daughter is never going to come back,'' said Richard Leebrick, the dead woman's father.

MR. JONES, 1332 Nassau Circle, Tavares, died Thursday, Nov. 25. He was a sales representative for a trucking business. Born in Oregon, he moved to Central Florida in 1964. He was a Baptist. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife, Lillian; son, David Miller, California; daughters, Liz Funderburk, Eustis, Barbara Weaver, Charlotte, N.C.; sister, Edna Hausworth, Salem, Ore.; nine grandchildren. Hamlin and Hilbish Funeral Directors, Tavares.

MATTIE MAE SCOTT, 67, 4101 Delray Ave., Orlando, died Monday. Born in Bainbridge, Ga., she moved to Orlando from Quincy in 1978. She was a homemaker and was a Baptist. Survivors: sons, Sel A., Orlando, Waymon Miller, David Miller, John Miller, all of Tampa; daughters, Annell Davis, Merdine Young, both of Orlando; brothers, James Washington, Orlando, Willie Washington, Vero Beach; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Mitchell's Funeral Home, Orlando.

According to the Sentinel editorial last Tuesday ("More time in class"), the consensus was that public school students need more time in classes. The consensus refers to a study accomplished by H.J. Walberg and J.S. Lai, which showed a strong relation between time on task and achievement. I am a high-school teacher and can't disagree that more teaching time is needed per subject, but we educators need an hour-long early-Wednesday break in the middle of each week. If we add that hour back to classroom time, then each of the six classes taught each day would increase by 10 minutes only one day per week.

During 1983, my 31/2-year-old son wrote a letter to President Reagan. My son already knew his ABC's and how to write them, and I helped him spell the words in his handwritten letter. The letter read: "Dear Mr. President, My name is Greg and I am 31/2 years old. My birthday is February 5th, 1984. Your birthday is February 6, 1984. Could you please come to my birthday at McDonald's? You are my President. Love, Greg" He wrote it well enough that it was readable. Three weeks later, we received a handwritten letter from Ronald Reagan himself.

CLERMONT -- William Ignatius Miller lived the kind of life that left him with a lot of stories. How did he get over the poison ivy that plagued him as a Boy Scout? He ground up some of the tainted leaves. And ate them. How did he meet his wife of nearly 60 years? He spotted Dorothy in Pensacola spinning around a skating rink with another man. Miller skidded right up to her and introduced himself. "He always told me, `The minute I looked at you, I thought, "That's the girl I'm gonna marry.

SHORTSTOP JHONNY Perez was 3-for-5 with two home runs and four RBIs as the visiting Cobras clobbered the Manatees on Thursday night in Florida State League action at Space Coast Stadium.The Cobras collected 12 hits against three pitchers. Starter David Miller (3-5) gave up five runs on seven hits in two innings to take the loss.Scott Elanton (12-6) allowed eight hits over nine innings, striking out six batters. Glenn Reeves' fifth home run of the season was the Manatees' only run. Reeves was 2-for-4.

A 73-year-old Minneola woman died when she was hit by a car as she tried to cross State Road 50 Wednesday evening.Andrea Hernandez was trying to go from the south to the north side of S.R. 50 at Seventh Avenue, Officer Eric Jensen said. Hernandez made it safely to the median, but witnesses said she darted into the path of a westbound truck.The truck, owned by Clermont Building Supply, was driven by David Miller, 23, of Groveland. He was not charged Wednesday night, Jensen said.Hernandez was taken by helicopter to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where she died shortly after the 6:15 p.m. accident.

MR. JONES, 1332 Nassau Circle, Tavares, died Thursday, Nov. 25. He was a sales representative for a trucking business. Born in Oregon, he moved to Central Florida in 1964. He was a Baptist. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife, Lillian; son, David Miller, California; daughters, Liz Funderburk, Eustis, Barbara Weaver, Charlotte, N.C.; sister, Edna Hausworth, Salem, Ore.; nine grandchildren. Hamlin and Hilbish Funeral Directors, Tavares.